Duchess of Cambridge pregnant: William and Kate on starting a family

In an interview given just after they announced their engagement in November
2010, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said they were looking forward to
starting a family.

8:38PM GMT 03 Dec 2012

In an official interview to mark their engagement in 2010, Kate said that her family had been very supportive: "I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves because they have been great over the years, helping me with difficult times and we see a lot of each other and they are very, very dear to me."

A spokesman for St James's Palace has confirmed the news that theDuke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first child.